Merchants Petition, ca. 1733?

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Merchants Petition, ca. 1733?

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Petition, ca. 1733, from fifty-eight merchants to the English House of Commons against a petition calling for the prohibition of trade between the northern [North American] colonies and the French and Dutch West Indies. Signers [Thomas Giles et al.] including London merchants who dealt in the Virginia tobacco trade such as John Hanbury and Thomas Lane) claim it would destroy colonial, English and European trade. The petition concerns the sugar, rum and molasses trade.

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